[gentoo-catalyst] squashfs-tools-3.0 and kernels <2.6.16

[gentoo-catalyst] squashfs-tools-3.0 and kernels <2.6.16

[Stuart Buckland]

I'm not sure if this is already widely know or not.  If it is feel free
to tell me to shut up :)

It appears that squashfs-tools-3.0 was marked stable some point over the
past couple of days.  If the CD you are building is running a kernel <
2.6.16 don't upgrade squashfs-tools on your build host.

I just ran into this where by I upgraded to squashfs-tools-3.0 but my
livecd uses the hardened-sources which is currently stable at 2.6.14-r8.
While the CD builds perfectly happily it fails to boot being unable to
mount squashfs.

Downgrading the build host back to squashfs-tools-2.2_p2 solved the
issue and all is well again.

Just mentioning it in case I'm not only one who didn't know about this
in the hope it saves others time in troubleshooting.

Stuart


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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] squashfs-tools-3.0 and kernels <2.6.16

[Erick M]

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I encountered the same issue some weeks ago and coudn't find out what was
the problem exactly.
So I used zisofs instead of squashfs and it worked fine. (At least I could
hand back the project I had at that time)

my 2 cent

On 5/10/06, Stuart Buckland <stuart@nightime.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is already widely know or not.  If it is feel free
> to tell me to shut up :)
>
> It appears that squashfs-tools-3.0 was marked stable some point over the
> past couple of days.  If the CD you are building is running a kernel <
> 2.6.16 don't upgrade squashfs-tools on your build host.
>
> I just ran into this where by I upgraded to squashfs-tools-3.0 but my
> livecd uses the hardened-sources which is currently stable at 2.6.14-r8.
> While the CD builds perfectly happily it fails to boot being unable to
> mount squashfs.
>
> Downgrading the build host back to squashfs-tools-2.2_p2 solved the
> issue and all is well again.
>
> Just mentioning it in case I'm not only one who didn't know about this
> in the hope it saves others time in troubleshooting.
>
> Stuart
>
>
> --
> Stuart Buckland <stuart@nightime.org.uk>
>
> --
> gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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